linear

A command-line helper for Linear, a project-management tool used to track issues, projects, teams, and work status. It lets an agent manage Linear records from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing, creating, viewing, updating, assigning, commenting on, transitioning, and closing issues; looking up teams, labels, and projects; and setting up CLI authentication.
Why use it?
It avoids switching to the Linear website for routine issue and project work. It also helps check for existing issues before creating duplicates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/afk-surf/openbridge/linear
Any agent
npx skills add AFK-surf/OpenBridge --skill linear
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AFK-surf/OpenBridge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,170 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00040 $0.03170
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01585
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00634
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00317

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6f11c8c995ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

linear scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

6. Restrict permissions on any file containing the token. Store a backup in `/home/sprite/.config/linear/env.sh` exporting `LINEAR_API_KEY`, chmod 600. Avoid printing `linear auth token` unless the user explicitly needs
macos/OpenBridge/Resources/SystemSkills.bundle/linear/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linear

Use this skill whenever the task involves Linear and the linear CLI is available or should be made available. Prefer CLI workflows for listing, creating, viewing, and updating Linear records when the requested task can be completed without the browser UI.

These notes are grounded against @schpet/linear-cli. The latest published version is 2.0.0; flag names differ from 1.9.1 in the auth subcommand. Always run linear auth login --help before attempting non-interactive auth, as flag names vary between versions.

Typical Goals

  • Check existing issues before creating duplicates.
  • Create issues with clear titles, descriptions, team assignment, labels, projects, priorities, or assignees when requested.
  • View, update, comment on, assign, transition, or close issues.
  • List teams, labels, and projects to resolve names, keys, and IDs.
  • Configure reusable CLI authentication on a persistent VM.
  • Use the Linear web UI only when the CLI lacks a needed operation or setup requires a personal API key.

Operating Principles

  • Inspect linear --help and subcommand help when command syntax is uncertain; CLI versions can differ.
  • Prefer structured or explicit output flags when supported by the installed CLI. In 1.9.1, linear issue view --json and linear label list --json support JSON; linear issue list does not.
  • Prefer managed OAuth over browser/API-key setup. When Linear credentials are missing, expired, or insufficient, use RequestOAuthAuthorization to connect the user's Linear account, then pass the saved credential to Exec.credential_env.
  • Check existing issues before creating a new one unless the user explicitly asks to create a new issue.
  • Do not claim an issue was found, created, or updated until a linear command succeeds and returns an identifier or URL.
  • If auth or permissions fail, report the concrete blocker and the command that exposed it.
  • Avoid relying on browser login alone as proof of CLI access; verify with real CLI reads.

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 269 lines · 40 tokens per session scan B 6f11c8c995ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linear is a skill published in the GitHub repository AFK-surf/OpenBridge (424 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,170 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens

chat-perf

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

microsoft/vscode · 51 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens